How do I set pageEncoding for all my JSPs without touching each JSP file?

Question

I’m using Java 6, JBoss 7.1.3 and Spring 3.2.11.RELEASE. Despite the fact that we set this in our application context

<bean id="systemPrereqs"
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
    <property name="targetObject" value="#{@systemProperties}" />
    <property name="targetMethod" value="putAll" />
    <property name="arguments">
        <!-- The new Properties -->
        <util:properties>
            <prop key="org.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING">UTF-8</prop>
        </util:properties>
    </property>
</bean>

I notice on my JSPs, special characters aren’t rendered correctly unless we specify a

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

at the top of the JSP page. This is fine for one JSP, but is cumbersome to have to go through the entire application adding these directives. Is there a more global place I can specify this, like in a Spring context or somewhere, that will universally add the above directive to all our JSP pages?

Russon

Answer 1

Put in your web.xml the following:

<jsp-config>
  <jsp-property-group>
     <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
     <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
     <default-content-type>text/html</default-content-type>
  </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>

More info: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17904_01/web.1111/e13712/web_xml.htm#WBAPP539

Middy

Answer 2

Add the following System property also:

<property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.USE_BODY_ENCODING_FOR_QUERY_STRING" value="true"/>

Polydactyl

Answer 3

Put the following in your web.xml .

<jsp-config>
    <jsp-property-group>
        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
        <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
    </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>

Motorcycle

Hi, How is your answer different from code_angel's, entered on 1/6? – Russon

I added an optional line default-content-type to make it different again ;) – Middy

K, let me give it a go with that directive because the original answer as you ahd it didn't work for me. SPecifically cnotent stored in the db as 'and “Evidence” ' (notice the smart quotes, hope those cut and pasted over) was still being rendered as ' and ?Evidence? ' – Russon

Answer 4

How about using filter?

<filter>
<filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
    <param-name>encoding</param-name>
    <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Vacuity

I forgot to mention that this configuraiton is already present in my web.xml and yet the problem remains. – Russon

@Russon try to use <system-properties> <property name="org.apache.catalina.connector.URI_ENCODING" value="UTF-8"/> </system-properties> – Vacuity